In our conversation, Mike, Chenhui and I discuss how the Blazers are using machine learning to produce better-targeted sales campaigns, for both single-game and season-ticket buyers. Mike describes some of the early use cases the Trail Blazers explored in their drive to apply analytics to the process of increasing ticket sales. Chenhui elaborates on some of the unique challenges of the Trail Blazers’ dataset and the modeling techniques the team applied to solve their problem.

Meetup

On July 17th at 5pm PT, Nic Teague will lead a discussion on the paper Quantum Machine Learning by Jacob Biamonte et al, which explores how to devise and implement concrete quantum software for accomplishing machine learning tasks. If you haven’t joined our meetup yet, visit twimlai.com/meetup to do so.

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